You may have heard this story...if you have then enjoy it with new pictures. If you haven't, then you get to hear the same story I told my children the other night while we were carving our pumpkin that we picked up at the Farm.God picks us all, like a pumpkin from the pumpkin patch. He brings us in. He cleans us up and washes off the dirt.
The outside is what people see...the inside is like our soul. Our heart. A pumpkin left by itself will rot.
God is the only one who can change our hearts (no Mark is not God but he represents Him for this story :) ) if we let him in and allow Him too.
See, our insides are yucky. Full of seeds of bitterness, pride, jealousy, selfishness....{when I asked the kids what was inside their hearts they said meaness to their siblings...}
God scoops out all the yucky stuff inside of us.
He removes the seeds of doubt, hate, impurity and greed.
But if we leave a pumpkin with just his insides taken out, then it's just hollow. We need to have a light inside that will truly make us alive.
Jesus said I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will never walk in darkness but have the light of life.
Jn 8:12
God loves my little punkins...
And so do I. Even when they decide that carving a pumpkin isn't nearly as fun as drawing on one...
He was very serious about his project.
